Lo, the glorious day is nigh. Prepare yourselves! Summer Streets is upon us!
Direct from the DOT:
Summer Streets is for you!
For three Saturdays this August, take pleasure in nearly 7 miles of car-free streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park.
Play! Run! Walk! Bike! Breathe!…at SUMMER STREETS!!
August 9th, 16th and 23rd from 7am - 1pm
Lafayette Street […]
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Posted in Livable Streets, Transportation on Aug 2nd, 2008
It is once again time to start gearing up for Park(ing) Day NYC— get out your benches, roll out your sod, ready your great ideas!
Park(ing) Day NYC is September 19th, and parking spots across the city are just waiting to be rescued, turned for a day into the Park(ing) Spots that will get everyone thinking […]
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Posted in Livable Streets, Transportation on Jul 17th, 2008
For anyone who spends any time on a bike in this town, this video will summon familiar feelings of outrage.
Bike-Lane Emergency from Nicholas Whitaker on Vimeo.
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Posted in Livable Streets, Transportation on Jul 12th, 2008
Truly amazing development on the fabric of NYC’s streets. Two lanes of Broadway to be rededicated to a pedestrian plaza and a bike lane. From the Times:
In a surprising reshaping of the urban landscape, the city is creating a public esplanade along a portion of one of its most prominent streets, Broadway in Midtown, setting […]
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Hot on the heels of the big Summer Streets announcement, a group in Williamsburg is planning a similar–if slightly less ambitious–car-free street experiment. Called Williamsburg Walks, for four saturdays (that’s one more than Summer Streets! take that Manhattan!) parts of Bedford Avenue, of course, will be closed off to cars, creating a safe haven for […]
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Posted in Transportation on Jun 22nd, 2008
[Photo from Gothamist’s coverage]
We’ve been thinking quite a bit about trains lately. So we were excited to here about Bloomberg’s support for a new high-speed (like proper, Euro-styel high-speed) train from NYC to DC. From the Times:
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Friday that he strongly supported the idea of two-hour train service between New York […]
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Posted in Community, Transportation on Jun 19th, 2008
[Much of Park Avenue, above, will be closed to cars on parts of Aug. 9, 16 and 23. Right, Lance Armstrong joined Mayor Bloomberg to announce street closings. Photo: Fred R. Conrad/NYT; John Marshall Mantel for NYT]
We’re a couple days late on this–not for lack of excitement, but because it actually took a […]
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We don’t spend too much time on sports here–but we have been known to get angry about cars, so we couldn’t let this item pass by without at least a brief mention. Friend and colleague Carina Molnar, aka The Green Queen Bee, saw this New Jersey Nets promotion and couldn’t resist dropping them a […]
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Posted in Livable Streets, Transportation on Jun 13th, 2008
Streetfilms has the vid:
More about biking at Governors Island here.
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Posted in Transportation on Jun 11th, 2008
We haven’t been this excited for a website since, well, this one.
Behold Ride the City, a way to find bicycle-friendly directions all around the city. In their words:
About Ride the City
Welcome to Ride the City, a website that helps you find the safest bike route between any two points in New York City.
The concept […]
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